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Wednesday, FEBRUARY 12, 2014 • The White Hall Journal • www.whitehalljournal.com
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RELIGION
EVENT SUBMISSIONS Email to: [email protected] or by fax to: 870-247-4755 limited to: • 20 words or less per event and • subject to content editing and space availability.
QUESTIONS? Contact Editor Stephanie Fischer at 870-673-8533 ext. 210 or [email protected]
How to Deal with a Shifting Culture
Stephen Harrison Senior Pastor Family Church 2500 Hwy 104 870.247.3300 www.familychurch.ws
Page Sponsors
LC LCS of AR, Inc. S
Lord Construction Services
General Construction Metal Building Sales Industrial Maintenance
By Stephen Harrison Family Church
We live in a world with a shifting culture. Not only is it shifting, I believe it is sliding rapidly off a steep cliff away from Biblical truth and Godly standards for living. As a Christian, how do you respond to a world with an ever changing culture? What is truth? Does truth change with culture or is there absolute truth that transcends time and culture? My belief is the Bible is the standard for living. It shows God’s purpose and plan for everyone He created. The Bible is our measuring stick for character, marriage, family, relationships, and every other issue of life. When culture shifts, will you? Culture does change. But God doesn’t (James 1:17; Numbers 23:19). When culture changes are you going to ask God to change with it? Some of you are old enough to remember when television shows portrayed husband and wife sleeping in two different beds. Today, in some shows, unmarried people are portrayed in the same bed and sometimes in multiple
beds with multiple people. Some of Jesus’ last words were to “teach them to obey all I have commanded” (Matthew 28:19-20). Christians are to become less like the worldly culture and more like the God and His Scriptures. Scripture says, “If anyone is in Christ he is a new creation. The old things are passed away, behold, all things are becoming new” (2 Corinthians 5:17). We are to impact the culture around us for Christ, not just isolate ourselves from it. Jesus prayed that Christians would stay in this world to impact it and not be removed from it (John 17:1415). Everything God has written in His word is for our benefit, not His. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 says, “All Scripture is God breathed and is profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness, SO THAT the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” God isn’t trying to restrict us with a bunch of “Thou Shalt Not’s”. He desires for us to have “life abundantly” (John 10:10) because He knows the Devil wants to steal, kill, and destroy our lives. Paul said we can
do anything we want to do. Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial (1 Corinthians 10:23). God created the world for our enjoyment. But Christians shouldn’t immerse themselves in worldly culture or value and chase after everything the world deems pleasurable or good. Our pleasure now as Christians is honoring God and His Word by conforming our lives to what He says is holy, perfect, and right. When culture shifts and goes against the absolute truth of Scripture you have to know who you are in Christ. Better said, you have to know who God designed you to be and is making you into. In Daniel 1:1-20, the chief official gave Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego new names to redefine who they were. These Godly young men were taken captive by the Babylonians and were to be trained in their language, literature, culture, and standards for living. But these young men knew who they were in God. They knew Whose they were. They refused to bow to the gods of that culture (Daniel 3). When they asked to be tested for ten days (Daniel 1:11-14)
with fasting, they were deciding to take a stand against the culture. Afterwards, they were found to be ten times better off than those who remained in the culture of the Babylonians (Daniel 1:20). These men stood for God, wouldn’t bow to culture, and were better off because of it. Culture will try to rename you, tame you, and claim you for its own. Culture’s desire is for you blend in with it. After all, everybody is doing it. What a lie! Everyone is not and does not have to conform to the culture of this world. Paul tells us, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of you mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is” (Romans 12:2). Question: will you change the world or will the world change you? Will your identity come from Christ or from the world? Will you be a thermostat (setting the culture) or a thermometer (responding to the culture)? Remember, sin’s power over us was broken when we became Christians and were baptized to become a part of Jesus Christ (Romans 6:3).
247-2341
“Dedicated to Your Health, Happiness, and Well-Being”
WElCH Nissan New & Previously Owned Cars & Trucks
First United Methodist
Moore Located at 9016 Hwy 270 in White Hall, Sunday, February 16th at 11am Welcome new Youth Pastors, Philip and Kayla Patterson
Area Church Directory CoRNeRSToNe APoSTolIC CHuRCH 9500 Dollarway Road
ASSEMBLY OF GOD FIRST ASSeMBlY oF GoD 801 W. Hoadley Rd.
BAPTIST Calvary Baptist Church 1214 Robin Rd CANAAN BAPTIST 5510 W. Malcomb St. CeNTRAl BAPTIST 6107 Dollarway Rd. ClAuD RoAD BAPTIST CHuRCH 1821 Claud Rd. FIRST BAPTIST WHITe HAll 8708 Dollarway Rd. FIRST BAPTIST DeWDRoP 1707 N. Bryant St. HAPPY HoMe BAPTIST 4312 Hwy. 365 South Jefferson HARDIN BAPTIST 300 Todd Lynn Dr. KeARNeY BAPTIST 1900 S. Hwy. 365 Redfield MARANATHA BAPTIST 5820 W. Holsey Ave. MT. olIve BAPTIST 8523 Princeton Pike NoRTHSIDe BAPTIST 7743 Sheridan Rd.
oAK GRove BAPTIST 13112 Dollarway Rd. PINe GRove BAPTIST 110 S. Bryant St. SHIloH BAPTIST 13701 Hwy. 270 uNITeD BAPTIST CHuRCH 411 S. Oleander St.
METHODIST
Redfield
ReDFIelD uNITeD Redfield
SOUTHERN BAPTIST
ST. luKe AMe 9908 Princeton Pike ST. luKe uNITeD 32 School Street (behind Dollarway School) ST. luKe AMe Redfield
CHURCH OF CHRIST CHuRCH oF CHRIST 102 Sheridan Rd. Redfield
WHITe HAll uNITeD 300 Church Dr. White Hall, AR 71602
WHITe HAll CHuRCH oF CHRIST 304 White Hall Ave.
MISSIONARY BAPTIST
CHURCH OF GOD BARNeS TeMPle CHuRCH oF GoD Princeton Pike Loop eTeRNAl lIFe CHuRCH oF GoD 503 S. Pryce St.
BeTHANY 7122 Sheridan Rd. leMoNWooD 920 Shephard Dr. MouNT PleASANT 3211 Barlett Rd. Redfield NeW BeTHel 2522 N. Pryce St.
FIRST PeNTeCoSTAl CHuRCH oF GoD 5400 Windham St.
oAKlAND HeIGHTS 9620 Sheridan Rd.
NeW HARveST CHuRCH oF GoD 9016 Hwy. 270
oRIoN 3826 Stagecoach Rd. Redfield
PeNTeCoSTAl CHuRCH oF GoD 1012 Jo Ann Dr. Redfield RIveR RoAD RIveR oF lIFe CHuRCH oF GoD 1209 River Rd. Redfield
JEHOVAH’S WITNESS JeHovAH’S WITNeSSeS 5601 Cheatham St.
PINeCReST 5910 Carbon St. ReDFIelD 500 Davis St. Redfield
FAMIlY CHuRCH 2500 Highway 104
2505 Olive St., Pine Bluff www.welchnissan.com
Outdoors and more
THE COUNTRY KITCHEN 4322 Dollarway Road • 535-4767 •BREAKFAST • PLATE LUNCH & DINNER
Pine Bluff Heating & Air Conditioning Co.
It’s Hard To Stop A Trane 536-3998 800-235-1342
OTHER CeNTeNNIAl FelloWSHIP 1400 Centennial Ln.
605 E. 6th Pine Bluff
CHuRCH oF THe lIvING GoD 3120 Gravel Pit Rd. HARDIN NeW lIFe APoSTolIC CHuRCH 10608 Hwy. 270 RIveR RoAD CHuRCH Route 1, River Rd. Redfield TRuTH TeMPle HolINeSS 9711 Dollarway Rd.
Pine Bluff Cotton Belt Federal Credit Union 535-6305 888-249-1904
1703 River Pines Blvd., Pine Bluff
PENTECOSTAL ReDFIelD uNITeD PeNTeCoSTAl 515 Sheridan Road Redfield WHITe HAll uNITeD PeNTeCoSTAl 7745 Sheridan Rd. WHISPeRING PINeS CoWBoY CHuRCH Meeting at Hestand Stadium 420 Blake Street, Pine Bluff uNITeD CHRISTIAN 907 Dawson Rd.
MISSIONARY NON-DENOMINATIONAL WoRD oF TRuTH MINISTRIeS Discipleship Training 1200 Dogwood
534-1551 1-800-WElCH99
102 Clark Road White Hall 247-0707
• New Harvest Church of God •
APOSTOLIC
White Hall
Nursing & Rehab Center
9209 Dollarway Rd. White Hall, AR 71602 870-247-0800 Fax 870-247-0802
200 W6th Pine Bluff 535-0935
EVENT NOTICES:
All Certifications MBMA AISC
5210 Industrial Drive South
I-530 Exit 39, North 1 Mile • Pine Bluff • 1-888-879-8940
Harold Pointer Car & Truck Accessories
Wheels, Tires and Custom Accessories For Your Car or Truck
Visit Our Showroom Home of the Camo Caddy
on Hwy. 79 at I-530 879-3766
Kellie Harris Neighborhood Exclusive Agent Weldon & Carolyn Wynne Sales Associates
Allstate Insurance Company 2007 W. 28th, Suite 3, Pine Bluff, AR (870) 534-4055 • Fax (870) 534-4062
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
SPLASH CAR WASH
NoRTHSIDe 5603 W. Holsey St.
2 Automatic Car Washes 7003 SHERIDAN RD.
Passion For GOD
Commercial Printing Promotional Products Screen Printing Embroidery 534-7202 888-530-7202 3004 Midland Dr. So
247-3300 2500 Hwy. 104 www.familychurch.ws
Compassion For People
let Us take Care of ALL Your Printing Needs!
247-4700 7400 Dollarway Rd. Suite E www.whitehalljournal.com
14
RELIGION
EVENT SUBMISSIONS Email to: [email protected] or by fax to: 870-247-4755 limited to: • 20 words or less per event and • subject to content editing and space availability.
QUESTIONS? Contact Editor Stephanie Fischer at 870-673-8533 ext. 210 or [email protected]
How to Deal with a Shifting Culture
Stephen Harrison Senior Pastor Family Church 2500 Hwy 104 870.247.3300 www.familychurch.ws
Page Sponsors
LC LCS of AR, Inc. S
Lord Construction Services
General Construction Metal Building Sales Industrial Maintenance
By Stephen Harrison Family Church
We live in a world with a shifting culture. Not only is it shifting, I believe it is sliding rapidly off a steep cliff away from Biblical truth and Godly standards for living. As a Christian, how do you respond to a world with an ever changing culture? What is truth? Does truth change with culture or is there absolute truth that transcends time and culture? My belief is the Bible is the standard for living. It shows God’s purpose and plan for everyone He created. The Bible is our measuring stick for character, marriage, family, relationships, and every other issue of life. When culture shifts, will you? Culture does change. But God doesn’t (James 1:17; Numbers 23:19). When culture changes are you going to ask God to change with it? Some of you are old enough to remember when television shows portrayed husband and wife sleeping in two different beds. Today, in some shows, unmarried people are portrayed in the same bed and sometimes in multiple
beds with multiple people. Some of Jesus’ last words were to “teach them to obey all I have commanded” (Matthew 28:19-20). Christians are to become less like the worldly culture and more like the God and His Scriptures. Scripture says, “If anyone is in Christ he is a new creation. The old things are passed away, behold, all things are becoming new” (2 Corinthians 5:17). We are to impact the culture around us for Christ, not just isolate ourselves from it. Jesus prayed that Christians would stay in this world to impact it and not be removed from it (John 17:1415). Everything God has written in His word is for our benefit, not His. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 says, “All Scripture is God breathed and is profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness, SO THAT the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” God isn’t trying to restrict us with a bunch of “Thou Shalt Not’s”. He desires for us to have “life abundantly” (John 10:10) because He knows the Devil wants to steal, kill, and destroy our lives. Paul said we can
do anything we want to do. Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial (1 Corinthians 10:23). God created the world for our enjoyment. But Christians shouldn’t immerse themselves in worldly culture or value and chase after everything the world deems pleasurable or good. Our pleasure now as Christians is honoring God and His Word by conforming our lives to what He says is holy, perfect, and right. When culture shifts and goes against the absolute truth of Scripture you have to know who you are in Christ. Better said, you have to know who God designed you to be and is making you into. In Daniel 1:1-20, the chief official gave Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego new names to redefine who they were. These Godly young men were taken captive by the Babylonians and were to be trained in their language, literature, culture, and standards for living. But these young men knew who they were in God. They knew Whose they were. They refused to bow to the gods of that culture (Daniel 3). When they asked to be tested for ten days (Daniel 1:11-14)
with fasting, they were deciding to take a stand against the culture. Afterwards, they were found to be ten times better off than those who remained in the culture of the Babylonians (Daniel 1:20). These men stood for God, wouldn’t bow to culture, and were better off because of it. Culture will try to rename you, tame you, and claim you for its own. Culture’s desire is for you blend in with it. After all, everybody is doing it. What a lie! Everyone is not and does not have to conform to the culture of this world. Paul tells us, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of you mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is” (Romans 12:2). Question: will you change the world or will the world change you? Will your identity come from Christ or from the world? Will you be a thermostat (setting the culture) or a thermometer (responding to the culture)? Remember, sin’s power over us was broken when we became Christians and were baptized to become a part of Jesus Christ (Romans 6:3).
247-2341
“Dedicated to Your Health, Happiness, and Well-Being”
WElCH Nissan New & Previously Owned Cars & Trucks
First United Methodist
Moore Located at 9016 Hwy 270 in White Hall, Sunday, February 16th at 11am Welcome new Youth Pastors, Philip and Kayla Patterson
Area Church Directory CoRNeRSToNe APoSTolIC CHuRCH 9500 Dollarway Road
ASSEMBLY OF GOD FIRST ASSeMBlY oF GoD 801 W. Hoadley Rd.
BAPTIST Calvary Baptist Church 1214 Robin Rd CANAAN BAPTIST 5510 W. Malcomb St. CeNTRAl BAPTIST 6107 Dollarway Rd. ClAuD RoAD BAPTIST CHuRCH 1821 Claud Rd. FIRST BAPTIST WHITe HAll 8708 Dollarway Rd. FIRST BAPTIST DeWDRoP 1707 N. Bryant St. HAPPY HoMe BAPTIST 4312 Hwy. 365 South Jefferson HARDIN BAPTIST 300 Todd Lynn Dr. KeARNeY BAPTIST 1900 S. Hwy. 365 Redfield MARANATHA BAPTIST 5820 W. Holsey Ave. MT. olIve BAPTIST 8523 Princeton Pike NoRTHSIDe BAPTIST 7743 Sheridan Rd.
oAK GRove BAPTIST 13112 Dollarway Rd. PINe GRove BAPTIST 110 S. Bryant St. SHIloH BAPTIST 13701 Hwy. 270 uNITeD BAPTIST CHuRCH 411 S. Oleander St.
METHODIST
Redfield
ReDFIelD uNITeD Redfield
SOUTHERN BAPTIST
ST. luKe AMe 9908 Princeton Pike ST. luKe uNITeD 32 School Street (behind Dollarway School) ST. luKe AMe Redfield
CHURCH OF CHRIST CHuRCH oF CHRIST 102 Sheridan Rd. Redfield
WHITe HAll uNITeD 300 Church Dr. White Hall, AR 71602
WHITe HAll CHuRCH oF CHRIST 304 White Hall Ave.
MISSIONARY BAPTIST
CHURCH OF GOD BARNeS TeMPle CHuRCH oF GoD Princeton Pike Loop eTeRNAl lIFe CHuRCH oF GoD 503 S. Pryce St.
BeTHANY 7122 Sheridan Rd. leMoNWooD 920 Shephard Dr. MouNT PleASANT 3211 Barlett Rd. Redfield NeW BeTHel 2522 N. Pryce St.
FIRST PeNTeCoSTAl CHuRCH oF GoD 5400 Windham St.
oAKlAND HeIGHTS 9620 Sheridan Rd.
NeW HARveST CHuRCH oF GoD 9016 Hwy. 270
oRIoN 3826 Stagecoach Rd. Redfield
PeNTeCoSTAl CHuRCH oF GoD 1012 Jo Ann Dr. Redfield RIveR RoAD RIveR oF lIFe CHuRCH oF GoD 1209 River Rd. Redfield
JEHOVAH’S WITNESS JeHovAH’S WITNeSSeS 5601 Cheatham St.
PINeCReST 5910 Carbon St. ReDFIelD 500 Davis St. Redfield
FAMIlY CHuRCH 2500 Highway 104
2505 Olive St., Pine Bluff www.welchnissan.com
Outdoors and more
THE COUNTRY KITCHEN 4322 Dollarway Road • 535-4767 •BREAKFAST • PLATE LUNCH & DINNER
Pine Bluff Heating & Air Conditioning Co.
It’s Hard To Stop A Trane 536-3998 800-235-1342
OTHER CeNTeNNIAl FelloWSHIP 1400 Centennial Ln.
605 E. 6th Pine Bluff
CHuRCH oF THe lIvING GoD 3120 Gravel Pit Rd. HARDIN NeW lIFe APoSTolIC CHuRCH 10608 Hwy. 270 RIveR RoAD CHuRCH Route 1, River Rd. Redfield TRuTH TeMPle HolINeSS 9711 Dollarway Rd.
Pine Bluff Cotton Belt Federal Credit Union 535-6305 888-249-1904
1703 River Pines Blvd., Pine Bluff
PENTECOSTAL ReDFIelD uNITeD PeNTeCoSTAl 515 Sheridan Road Redfield WHITe HAll uNITeD PeNTeCoSTAl 7745 Sheridan Rd. WHISPeRING PINeS CoWBoY CHuRCH Meeting at Hestand Stadium 420 Blake Street, Pine Bluff uNITeD CHRISTIAN 907 Dawson Rd.
MISSIONARY NON-DENOMINATIONAL WoRD oF TRuTH MINISTRIeS Discipleship Training 1200 Dogwood
534-1551 1-800-WElCH99
102 Clark Road White Hall 247-0707
• New Harvest Church of God •
APOSTOLIC
White Hall
Nursing & Rehab Center
9209 Dollarway Rd. White Hall, AR 71602 870-247-0800 Fax 870-247-0802
200 W6th Pine Bluff 535-0935
EVENT NOTICES:
All Certifications MBMA AISC
5210 Industrial Drive South
I-530 Exit 39, North 1 Mile • Pine Bluff • 1-888-879-8940
Harold Pointer Car & Truck Accessories
Wheels, Tires and Custom Accessories For Your Car or Truck
Visit Our Showroom Home of the Camo Caddy
on Hwy. 79 at I-530 879-3766
Kellie Harris Neighborhood Exclusive Agent Weldon & Carolyn Wynne Sales Associates
Allstate Insurance Company 2007 W. 28th, Suite 3, Pine Bluff, AR (870) 534-4055 • Fax (870) 534-4062
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
SPLASH CAR WASH
NoRTHSIDe 5603 W. Holsey St.
2 Automatic Car Washes 7003 SHERIDAN RD.
Passion For GOD
Commercial Printing Promotional Products Screen Printing Embroidery 534-7202 888-530-7202 3004 Midland Dr. So
247-3300 2500 Hwy. 104 www.familychurch.ws
Compassion For People
let Us take Care of ALL Your Printing Needs!
247-4700 7400 Dollarway Rd. Suite E www.whitehalljournal.com
